A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SKELETON CLOCKS (LOTS 117-134)

A VICTORIAN BRASS AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED STRIKING EIGHT DAY BRIGHTON PAVILION SKELETON CLOCK

ATTRIBUTED TO SMITHS, CLERKENWELL, LONDON, RETAILED BY SHEPHERDSON, DONCASTER. CIRCA 1864

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A VICTORIAN BRASS AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED STRIKING EIGHT DAY BRIGHTON PAVILION SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO SMITHS, CLERKENWELL, LONDON, RETAILED BY SHEPHERDSON, DONCASTER. CIRCA 1864
DIAL: finely foliate pierced, engraved and silvered chapter ring, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: with ormolu eagle finial and flanked by ormolu lions, the pierced plates joined by eight double-screwed pillars, twin chain fusees, dead beat anchor escapement, five crossings to all train wheels, rack strike on gong, silvered cartouche signed 'SHEPHERDSON/DONCASTER'; gridiron pendulum, winding key, replaced velvet-covered and marble plinth with original silvered scroll-pierced cartouche inscribed 'Presented by the/CHURCH & CONGREGATION/INDEPENDENT CHAPEL EASTGATE DONCASTER/to the Rev. C. C. Tyle on his/resigning in the office after Eighty nine years/faithful loyalty February 29th 1864', replaced glass dome
24½ in. (62 cm.) high, excluding dome; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) wide; 10¾ in. (27.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Reverend C.C. Tyle.

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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
D. Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Woodbridge, 1987, pp. 72-74, figs.-32; F.B. Royer-Collard, Skeleton Clocks, London, 1969, p. 4, fig. 1-2.

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